For the third straight year, children were invited to Maple Mount to learn about nature, music, and how the two intertwine. Girls from Girls Incorporated in Owensboro, Ky., came out for the day from June 6-9 to learn from John Rose, an experienced wilderness tracker and musician, award-winning musician Randy Lanham, and Sister Amelia Stenger.…

As a “J” on the Myers-Briggs personality inventory, I like to have things finished, all tied up in a neat little package. I’ve stayed up late many nights with a good book, to see how it turned out. That’s why I was so surprised to realize that part of my current fascination with the mystery…

Ursuline Sister Joseph Angela Boone was honored at a reception June 7 for her 22 years of service as chancellor of the Diocese of Owensboro, Ky. Sister Joseph Angela is retiring June 30, but will remain in service on several committees with the diocese. Also honored during the reception at Immaculate Parish in Owensboro was…

Sometimes it’s strange to be in an in-between place. I heard them described as “Holy Saturday” moments–a place between the end of one part of life and the beginning of another. But perhaps an even better description would be as the “Day After the Ascension” time; the previous focus of your life is not visible…

In his book on Transitions, William Bridges said you have to let yourself live through an ending before you can make a beginning. So when I returned from my U.N. internship in New York I set out to live through that ending mindfully, and begin to find my way into the next chapter of my…

Father Harry Peterson, SDB, a Salesian of Don Bosco priest, visited Mount Saint Joseph on May 24, 2011 and said Mass in the Motherhouse Chapel at 11 a.m., then joined the sisters for lunch. Father Harry, who last visited the Mount on June 13, 2008 with his brother, Father George Peterson, OCSO, a Trappist priest,…

Students from Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic School in Hopkinsville, Ky., visited Mount Saint Joseph on May 20, 2011. The students were in the second, third, and fourth grades. They were accompanied by their principal, Sarah Kranz, a 1972 Mount Saint Joseph Academy graduate. Also in attendance was Father Uwem Enoh, parochial victor for Saints…

The three sixth-grade classes at the Owensboro Catholic Schools 4-6 Campus came to the Mount Saint Joseph Conference and Retreat Center on May 18 for a day of prayer.

And home looks great! from my room I can see grass and trees instead of bricks… but I feel like I (like Dorothy!) came home by whirlwind, and my room LOOKS like it. From LaGuardia Airport, I looked back with nostalgia at the Manhattan skyline, and shed copious tears at leaving my dear Franciscan community…

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